HC Deb 25 April 1996 vol 276 cc238-41W
Sir Fergus Montgomery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list his Department's responsibilities on which the integrated regional offices are required to advise him on the allocation of resources. [25934]

Mr. Curry

The Government offices for the regions are required to provide advice to the Secretary of State for the Environment on the allocation of resources for the housing investment programme, housing partnership fund, flats over shops programme, cash incentive scheme, the single regeneration budget challenge fund and the European regional development fund.

Sir Fergus Montgomery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the annual expenditure for each integrated regional office on each programme in each of the last three years. [25933]

Mr. Curry

The information requested is as follows:

Employment Department/Department for Education and Employment: 1995–96
Expenditure outturn NE NW M YH WM EM ER SW SE L
Training for Work Fees (£ million) 28.7 30.9 16.6 36.0 33.6 24.9 18.5 21.4 21.8 43.2
Youth Training and Modern Apprenticeships (£ million) 54.7 94.1 29.1 74.0 70.6 60.7 56.4 53.3 78.3 59.7
Accelerated Modern Apprenticeships (£ thousand) 14.0 2.0 0.0 20.0 9.0 8.0 6.0 3.0 0.0 2.0
Work Experience (£ million) 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.4 1.1 0.4
FECDF (£ million) 1.7 3.9 1.0 3.2 3.9 2.3 3.0 2.9 4.5 4.3
Adult Information and Guidance (£ thousand) 552.6 403.8 242.8 926.5 361.3 0.0 308.8 61.6 70.0 426.0
Skill Choice (£ thousand) 246.7 87.5 76.6 0.0 79.4 10.6 600.3 43.8 63.8 58.5
Workstart (£ thousand) 70.7 — — — — — — — — —
Jobmatch (£ million) — — — — — 0.2 — — — 0.5
Technical Vocational Education Initiative (£ million) 1.1 7.1 3.9 10.7 1.9 5.4 1.3 4.6 1.8 13.2
Careers Libraries (£ thousand) 82.2 208.5 45.9 183.1 167.1 160.0 193.2 149.3 257.0 191.7
Careers Guidance (£ million) 0.0 1.1 1.2 1.4 1.3 0.5 1.1 0.5 2.6 4.8
Careers Service—Contracted (£ million) 12.2 17.7 0.8 15.2 16.4 13.8 16.5 16.5 16.0 0.3
Careers Service—Directed (£ million) 0.6 6.1 5.3 6.6 5.5 2.4 4.7 2.4 11.3 21.7

  1. 1. The tables identify the former Employment Department and DFEE programmes in whose administration and delivery Government Offices are involved. The programmes are mainly delivered through Training and Enterprise Councils, Local Education Authorities and Careers Services, under contract to the Department.
  2. 2. The table for 1993–94 refers to programme expenditure by Employment Department Regional Offices, whose boundaries are in some instances different from those of Government Offices for the Regions, which were formed in April 1994. Breakdowns of all programme spend for 1993–94 are not available. However, spend on the two largest programmes run by the Department is given. The spend in the table may not align precisely with the outturn published in the Appropriation Accounts at national level.
  3. 3. Final outturn for 1994–95, as published in the Appropriation Accounts, is available at national level only. The spend in the table for 1994–95 may not align precisely with outturn published in the Appropriation Accounts.
  4. 4. Spend for 1995–96 is still provisional. Final outturn will not be available until the Appropriation Accounts are published in the Autumn and is available at national level only. The spend in the table therefore represents the most up to date information available but may not align precisely with spend to be published in the Appropriation Accounts.
  5. 5. Training for Work spend excludes Allowances, not available at Government Office level.

Department of Trade and Industry
£ million
1993–94 outturn 1994–95 outturn 1995–96 expected outturn
Net Gross Net Gross Net Gross
ERDF Payment to third parties 18.0 18.0 29.3 29.3 29.2 29.2
Regional Selective Assistance 95.1 95.3 112.9 113.2 111.7 113.0
Inward Investment 8.8 8.9 10.5 10.5 12.5 12.5
Business Services Locally Delivered (including development of Business Links) 83.8 83.8 48.2 48.2 86.2 86.2
Export Promotion Schemes and Services (excluding Trade Policy element (WTO subscription) 39.5 54.7 45.6 56.2 54.2 57.6
SMART 12.9 12.9 13.4 13.4 11.8 11.8
SPUR 8.7 8.7 8.5 8.5 8.7 8.7

  1. 1. The table identifies the main DTI programmes in whose administration and delivery the Government Offices are involved. The GOs are not directly involved in administering or delivering the whole amount of the programme expenditure identified in the table. Regional breakdowns for DTI programmes are not available.
  2. 2. Net figures are net of receipts.

Department of Transport
£ thousand
Outturn NE NW M YH WM EM ER SW SE L
1994–95
Statutory Advertising 54.1 71.0 23.5 44.0 36.6 13.1 23.7 24.2 6.7 42.0
Public Inquiry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Consultancy and Studies 0 17.0 2.8 0 11.0 0 0 0 0 80.0
Woolwich Ferry — — — — — — — — — 3,768.0
Transportation Studies — — — — — — — — — 1,089.0
1995–96
Statutory Advertising 147.4 53.0 25.4 42.0 23.5 20.4 30.0 18.7 39.8 45.6
Public Inquiry 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0 35.0 0 0
Department of Transport
£ thousand
Outturn NE NW M YH WM EM ER SW SE L
Consultancy and Studies 0 13.0 12.1 10.0 18.4 0 0 24.3 40.0 261.0
Woolwich Ferry — — — — — — — — — 4,136.0
Transportation Studies — — — — — — — — — 1,490.0

  1. 1. Details of programme expenditure prior to the formation of Government Offices for the Regions in April 1994 are not available.

Department of the Environment
£ million
Outturn1 NE NW M YH WM EM ER SW SE L
1993–94
Housing Investment
Programme 83.0 162.0 53.8 154.6 194.7 116.2 142.4 140.6 187.5 530.4
Estate Action23 28.7 60.3 39.6 41.8 46.1 27 5.9 12.2 3.8 85.3
Housing Partnership Fund 3.6 2.6 0.7 2.8 3.4 4.0 3.9 4.8 3.1 1.1
Housing Action Trust2 — — 16.0 26.5 2.0 — — — — 30.6
Flats Over Shops 1.0 0.8 0.3 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.7 1.0 0.8 1.9
Energy Efficiency/Cash
Incentive Scheme 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.3
Derelict Land Grant4 7.8 27.5 8.0 23.9 19.9 8.7 0.8 3.3 0.8 3.6
City Action Team2 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 — — — 0.5
Task Forces2 1.8 1.0 2.2 2.3 2.6 2.3 — 0.6 — 5.0
Urban Development
Corporation2 78.5 37.1 22.5 16.7 62.4 — — 20.7 — 105.4
City Challenge1 5 45.8 31.8 22.3 27.8 29.0 21.2 — — — 52.3
Manchester Regeneration — 23.3 — — — — — — — —
Docklands Light Railway2 — — — — — — — — — 28.1
Merseyside Special grant — — 0.6 — — — — — — —
ERDF 41.2 28.2 23.0 32.6 34.3 10.4 — 2.4 11.5 —
Coalfield Areas Fund6 Total expenditure: 166.5
Urban Programme2/UPF6 Total expenditure: 2.3
1994–95
Housing Investment
Programme 78.1 156.2 63.3 142.8 172.2 108.8 112.9 115.4 137.7 442.4
Housing Partnership Fund 1.5 3.0 0.7 2.6 2.9 2.1 2.4 2.3 3.0 10.2
Flats over Shops Programme 1.0 1.0 0.2 1.2 0.9 1.0 0.4 0.9 0.8 1.5
Cash incentive Scheme — — — — 0.7 — 3.2 2.0 7.6 16.3
Single Regeneration Budget 160.9 148.8 104.6 161.5 176.1 75.6 14.6 42.7 13.7 320.8
Coalfield Areas Fund 0.2 — — 0.2 0.4 1.2 — — — —
Manchester Regeneration — 30.2 — — — — — — — —
ERDF 53.9 49.5 32.5 43.0 70.1 23.3 — 13.0 2.7 0.1
1995–96
Housing Investment
Programme 64.9 134.4 37.1 119.7 136.7 84.3 93.6 97.8 136.8 367.0
Housing Partnership Fund 1.6 2.8 0.7 2.7 3.1 1.9 2.1 2.8 3.2 9.7
Cash incentive Scheme 0.6 1.9 0.7 0.3 1.9 1.5 4.8 2.6 10.9 34.6
Specified Capital Grant for Private Sector Renewal 12.6 52.0 13.5 32.3 49.1 25.6 24.4 33.8 43.6 49.8
Single Regeneration Budget 152.6 143.9 102.7 133.1 147.9 73.8 9.6 29.7 9.4 313.5
ERDF 28.8 27.4 29.2 32.8 27.6 10.8 0.2 11.5 1.3 1.6
1 The table above refers to programme expenditure by the Regional Offices of the Department of the Environment. Government Offices were established in April 1994.
2 Subsumed within Single Regeneration Budget from April 1994.
3 Estate Action figures exclude resources for Design Improvement Controlled Experiment (DICE).
4 Transferred to English Partnerships from April 1994.
5 City Challenge figures include City Challenge Housing Corporation expenditure in 1993–94 and exclude payments made in 1993–94 for expenditure actually incurred in 1992–93.
6 Figures for the Urban Programme, Urban Partnership Fund (UPF) and Coalfield Areas Fund are not held centrally on a region by region basis. The Urban Programme was subsumed within the Single Regeneration Budget from April 1995.